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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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World
Similarities
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Opposites
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